Students to Present at the Association of Law Teachers Conference
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:19:00 GMT
The Association of Law Teachers will be holding its annual conference at the Queens Hotel, Leeds in April and one of the groups presenting from the University of Huddersfield are fourth year MLP students Laura King, Jake Moore and Rosie Turner.
The students have used their experience in the Legal Advice Clinic to develop a paper entitled ‘An integrated and embedded approach to learning ethics in the Law’ that challenges the traditional, technical way that ethics is taught on law courses up and down the country. Instead it is posited that ethics, professionalism and legal values are best learned through reflective engagement and practice in the law. In such a model, the goal is not just blindly obeying the rules to avoid punishment but about actually having the ability to be sensitive to ethical issues when they arise, as well as the judgement, motivation and character to do something about it.
This will undoubtedly be a groundbreaking presentation not least because it gives the students themselves an opportunity to speak about the ways in which they learn and then discuss this with academics from across the country.
Jake Moore pictured on the left
